Check out Autochrome images, some very intriguing early color photography using that process.

What an incredible image! Love it!

Thanks! I love them too!

There are a handful of gardening sites that sell the egg cases, called ooths. I got mine from Hirt’s Gardens - needed to get a native mantis type so as not to introduce a non-native species to my area.

Got them specifically for natural pest control. Hopefully they come back next year like the sunflowers did - guess we’ll see!

One of my favorites too!

That is actually a Sunflower! My wife has been planting them over the last 3 years or so and this year they’re upwards of 15 feet tall.

All of the neighborhood small animals are converging to eat the flowers, and the dogs are eating whatever the squirrels happen to drop.

Thanks so much!

Me too please! Would love the highest res image you’re willing to part with. This is amazing!